One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.